Toffee With Nut

I move around the house like a ghost sometimes, and other times like a contestant on Survivor.  Can I outplay and outlast my ownself?  I guess we’ll see.   Last week when the house was a convalescent home for a dying dog, everything went upside down very fast.  I expected to spend this week not moving [...]

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The Memorial

I had always thought things like headstones were a bit of earthly nonsense, but after some wise person told me that it helps to plan some type of memorial I began turning the idea over in my mind.

This is what I’ve settled on. It’s a Cobalt Celtic Urn Pendant. I decided [...]

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Aftermath

Wherein I talk about grieving… The jump is there so you can skip reading yet another post about dogs and dying if you so choose.
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“Well, I Meant Cake!!!”

Various Silver Lining-y Thingies

All this is happening on 3/21–like a countdown! Weird but cool. Also, 21 is 7 x 3 so if you believe in the Holy numbers of Scripture that’s kind of a happy coincidence.
All this is happening on Good Friday, so while I’ll always remember the bad, it’s tied in with [...]

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The View From The Precipice

I told the folks on Twitter about our decision to euthanise Casey right after I hung up from the Vet. Something about typing an event makes it more grounded in my mind–a life lived on the keyboard, I reckon.
We’ll be taking him in on Saturday morning Friday evening. We’ve decided to leave [...]

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Adam’s Rib

There’s that part of the Genesis creation story where God takes a rib from Adam and around that rib fashions Eve.   That missing rib becomes a companion in conversation, exploration, sin and the eventual path to redemption.  Whether you hold that story as fact or allegorical myth, so much that is good springs from that [...]

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Woot! (Shameless plug)

Great things are happening in the tech world, starting right here in Nashville.
Founded in 1992, Nashville, Tennessee-based Griffin focused for years on Macintosh-related products before entering the iPod market in 2002. At that point, it burst onto the scene with various pocket-sized electronic attachments, subsequently releasing at least one—the seminal FM transmitter iTrip—you probably already [...]

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See, I KNEW No Good Could Come Of The Writers’ Strike

TV must be really boring. There must be no good books left to read. Perhaps all the zoos have closed down and the Ice Cream trucks are under quarantine.
I can’t think of any other reason why someone would pretend to be a friend of mine, use that person’s name and come to [...]

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The Christlike State

In a conversation elsewhere, a commentator remarks that we should have a more Christlike state. My response to that is what I’ve been thinking for awhile now, so I’m also responding to that over here–with some minor changes.

Would that include prohibitions on divorce and re-marriage?
No, Mr. Kennedy. As you can see, I [...]

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Maybe I’m Stupid [Adult Content In This Post]

Warning: Adult Content in This Post
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